Abundance meets regularly to plan activities, discuss progress, and distribute tasks. Please sign up to our mailing list if you’d like to be kept in touch or get involved.

If you’d like to help us do some fruit picking, organising or delivering produce, we’d love to meet you! We are looking for new volunteers for all aspects of the project. You can get involved with one particular area or several if you like;

Fruit picking – We have fruit picking sessions every Sunday during the season (typically August to October/November). We usually meet at 1pm and to go 2/3 gardens to pick fruit, which we then distribute by bike trailer or car if necessary.

Distributing – If you are a keen cyclist and interested in whizzing round with a bike trailer to deliver our freshly picked fruit and veg, we need you! Or if you can distribute with a car that may also be very useful for when there’s more than we can carry in our trailers!

Juicing / Cooking – We also do fruit juicing and make apple crumbles and chutneys, so keep an eye on our list if you are interested.

Getting more involved – We are always looking for more people to help organise fruit pickings and other activities associated with the group, so please get in touch if you would like to help.

To find out more about any of the above, please contact us. We inform volunteers about most of the above through our mailing list, so please sign up to receive updates.

Hello I just saw you on the local news; I live in Congleton in south Cheshire but I would love to come to Manchester to help you pick some fruit! I work days but if there are any forthcoming days I can make I would love to get involved! Please could you email me locations and dates of some of the fruit picking/distributing occasions and I will try and find some which I can help out! Thank you this is a brilliant and exciting project!!

Hi there.. what a great concept. Im a tree surgeon of long standing and am witness to tons of fruit going to waste around the gardens I visit. I rescue what I can but an organisation such as yours is long overdue.
Would like to discover a little more about how you operate but Im sure I could get involved in some way. My skills and equipment might be of use to you during harvest time but perhaps I can contribute in other ways throughout the year.
Look forward to hearing from you.

It’s May 30th as I write this. I came to the plot last Sunday and it was intended I come back and help out but it happens I’ve found a plot – someone’s garden at the back of their house – so will be going there instead.

Dear Everyone
If you are interested in volunteering, and want to get involved in some hands-on growing, the first plot session of the year will take place on Saturday 9th April 2011 from 2-4pm. The plot is at the end of the car park at Manchester Bridge Club, 30 Palatine Road, West Didsbury, M20 3JJ.

After that, it will be every Sunday from 2-4

Hope you can join us!

(And let us know if you have any compost, seedlings, pots, tools etc you wish to contribute and we can come and collect)

Hi Erika can you drop an email to abundancemanchester@yahoo.co.uk and we’ll put you on the mailing list, that way you’ll hear about everything that’s going on. Oh and you don’t have to climb anything if you don’t want to! We have picking devices that allow you to do it from the ground, plus there’s distribution to be done.

Hi Filomena. Thanks! Can you send us your email address then we can put you on the mailing list and you’ll hear about what we’re up to and how to get involved. Email debbieclarke_@hotmail.com as the abundance email is currently not working

I’m currently studying towards a RHS horticulture qualification & would love to volunteer my gardening and maintenance skills in order to gain some experience for myself also . Please email taylornick93@googlemail.com

Hi Ceri we’ve added you to the mailing list so you’ll hear about all the opportunities to get involved. Fruit harvesting only takes place in late summer and autumn but we may have another orchard event before then.